19世纪中叶,不少华人满怀淘金的梦想,飘洋过海,到夏威夷的农庄和美国西部的矿山当契约劳工,后来又到美国西部修建铁路。铁路修成后,等待他们的却是美国历史上惟一的一部歧视少数民族的法令——《排华法令》。从此,美国华人经历了长达六十多年漫长而痛苦的煎熬,在相对封闭的“唐 By the middle of the 19th century, many Chinese were full of gold-dreams, floating across the sea to work as contract laborers in Hawaii’s farms and mines in the western United States and later built railroads in the western United States. After the railway was completed, it was the only law in the history of the United States that waited for them to discriminate against ethnic minorities - the Exclusion Act. Since then, the Chinese Americans have experienced a long and painful torment of more than 60 years. In the relatively closed Tang